Nathan Hardy
Application Lead
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolNathan Hardy is an Application Lead and full-stack web engineer with 12 years’ experience designing and delivering production web and cloud solutions using Node, React, TypeScript and AWS. Based in Sydney, he progressed from frontend internships to leading application teams at Kablamo, combining hands-on coding with technical leadership and delivery ownership. He contributes to the TypeScript ecosystem via DefinitelyTyped, improving type definitions for widely used libraries and helping developers get safer tooling and better DX. Nathan is pragmatic about performance and build tooling—early work introducing Webpack and long-term caching shows a focus on measurable user and developer experience gains.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Study Abroad, Computer Science, Study Abroad, Computer Science at University of OtagoBachelor of Information Technology Coop Scholarship, Information Technology, Bachelor of Information Technology Coop Scholarship, Information Technology at University of Technology, SydneyKanwal Public SchoolSouthern Cross School K-12, East Ballina
French, English
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
typescript10
typescript-definitions10
type-definition10
dts10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
webpack7
webpacker7
data-structures6
cryptography6
aes6
python6
django6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
May 2017 - Nov 2021
The repository for high quality TypeScript type definitions.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:30 reviews, 11 commits, 11 PRs in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Nathan primarily contributed to type definition updates within the `DefinitelyTyped` repository, focusing on JavaScript libraries and frameworks. They added, updated, and merged type definitions for various projects, including `sha256`, `react-pdf`, `write-file-webpack-plugin`, `node-hook`, `video.js`, `videojs-contrib-quality-levels`, and `braintree-web`. These contributions involved modifications to `.d.ts` files and associated test files to ensure accurate type checking and code completion for developers using these libraries.
typescriptdefinitiondtstypingstypescript-definitions
nhardy/word-by-word
Jan 2014 - Jun 2015
Contributions:75 commits, 4 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 4 months
social-networkreact
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